100 Best Board Games – What’s your vote?
“What’s your favorite board game?” When people find out that we review family board games, this is the first question
Read more
Kid Games
Back to School Board Games
While we may be down 1 board game player, 1 board game reviewer, and our board game reviews video editor, that won’t stop our drive to tell everyone how great family game time can be.
Regardless of what grade your kids are heading into this year, there are plenty of fantastic board games and card games for you to play with them. Check out our short list of great games for different age ranges.
Read more
Game Design Merit Badge in action!
I don’t think I’ve anticipated working on a merit badge with as much enthusiasm as I have for the one we began tonight – Game Design!
Boy are these scouts in for a treat!
The Boy Scouts of America added the Game Design merit badge to the mix in March 2013. And I’ve been waiting for the chance to work on it with our scouts ever since.
Read more
King of New York – Can’t Wait!
When we heard the game publisher, iello, was going to make King of New York, it was immediately added to our “games we can’t wait for” list.
The details on the release of King of New York are hush-hush for another week. The big promotion starts next week at GenCon (the largest board game convention in the US). So we’re really looking forward to hearing more soon.
But prior to that, we’ve got something special to share – an exclusive sneak peek at one of the cards: Broadway Star
Read more
Best Games of 2013 – The Dice Tower Awards!
The best board games, card games, dice games, family games, and party games of 2013 have now been awarded!
With more than 3,000+ new games published in 2013, there were a ton to choose from.
But the 40+ top board game reviewers around the world were up to the challenge.
Read more
Which board games to play? Tough choice
This week we’re having a family reunion and I’m in charge of supplying the games.
Of course, supplying board games to play for the occasion isn’t a big surprise. It’s really something I do anyway whenever we get together with family.
The toughest question is which games to take…
Read more
Summer vacation time! 10 Days in the Americas
With family trips on our mind, we’ve got a great family board game series suggestion for you – the “10 Days” series – by Out of the Box.
There are currently 5 games in the series:
10 Days in the USA
10 Days in Africa
10 Days in Europe
10 Days in Asia
10 Days in the Americas
Grab the chunky wooden blocks
We’ve got 2 games to tell you about today – Eternas and Quadefy.
Both games are 2-player games published by Maranda Enterprises and both have fantastic wooden components.
When you pick up one of these games boxes, you’ll feel the hefty weight of these pieces.
And the quality of the wood is perfect for table-top play. In fact, both of these are games that you could leave out on the table, or office desk for great conversations starters and quick challenges to family, friends, or coworkers.
Read more
Kids will love Coconuts
Do your kids enjoy throwing/flicking/flinging things around?
What if they had a monkey to fling rubber coconuts around?
Would they enjoy that?
Because that’s exactly what the Coconuts board game is – a dexterity game that kids will love.
After all, they get to use monkeys to fling rubber coconuts.
Read more
Tetris in a board game = FITS
Tetris was the only video game that my wife was ever hooked on. When she was younger, she got hooked on Tetris and played it a ton. When passing symbols on signs along the road, her mind would immediately imagine how the shapes would fit into place in Tetris.
So when I first saw the board game FITS a few years ago, I had a big hunch that it would be a game that my wife would enjoy playing.
And I was right!
Read more